Marvel VS DC

I'm going to talk about the marvel comics business and the opposition between Marvel and DC comics.

Marvel Entertainment and Marvel Comics

Marvel Entertainment was created in 1934 (nineteen thirty four) by Martin Goodman. Marvel entertainment has a catalog more than 5000 (five thousand) characters. The characters were most of the times created by the scenarist Stan Lee. There are 2 main branches: marvel comics for the editions and marvel studio for the films and TV. Marvel Entertainment mainly produces comics and alternatives products.

The branch Marvel Comics was created in 1939 (nineteen thirty nine) by Martin Goodman. Then it was purchased on August 31 (the thirty first) 2009 (two thousand and nine) by the Walt Disney Company. The most famous characters of Marvel are Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Daredevil, Ghost Rider (and so an) … the scenarist Stan Lee was executive editor of Marvel Comics from 1941 (nineteen forty one) to 1942 (nineteen forty two) and from 1945 (nineteen forty five) to 1972 (nineteen seventy two). The current executive editor is Axel Alonso since 2011 (two thousand and eleven). The editions of Marvel comics have currently been published in France by Pannini Comics.

Marvel Comics target an audience of teenagers and adults. The main topics are: the fight between good and evil; the justice; the consequences of the existence of super power.

The Marvel universe

Marvel Universe is a place, where Marvel character’s live. Marvel Universe is a similar world to ours. But in Marvel Universe super heroes exist, there are also aliens, gods … There are some categories of Marvel heroes, such as:

• Mutants, which have a mutation of DNA. For example: the X-men are a group of Mutants.
• Heroes with powers victim of an accident. For example: captain America participated in a scientific experiment to create a super soldier. Spider-Man was bitten by a genetically modified spider. The fantastic four were exposed to a massive dose of cosmic radiation during a space mission.
• Powerless Heroes. For example: Iron man with his armor and his high-technology. Hawkeyes is an archer who never misses his target.
• Aliens or gods. For example: Thor is an Asgardian god. The eternals are a fictional race of super humans.

The competition between Marvel and DC comics

DC Comics was created in 1935 (nineteen thirty five) by Malcom Wheeler-Nicholson. It is a branch of Warner Bros. Warner bros is the creator of Looney toons. The main heroes of DC Comics are for example: Superman, Green arrow, Batman, wonder woman, green lantern … DC Comics is the same as Marvel Comics. Both are producers of comics. So they are competing with each other. Especially since the Walt Disney Company has purchased Marvel Comics, because Disney and Warner are competitors in cartoons and now also in comics.

The difference between DC comics characters and Marvel Characters is that the heroes of DC comics are only super humans; but the Marvel characters are heroes with complicated behaviors. They exploit fear and the questions of teenagers of the time.

With the results of the box office we can observe that there are more Marvel movies than DC Comics movies. In most cases Marvel movies have more success than the DC Comics movies.